Peachburg, Alabama
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Union Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36089. The Survey maps it on the Roba quadrangle.
On record in Peachburg
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Octavia Adkinson House, Wilson Road, Peachburgfederal building survey, 5 photographs
- Seale-Mosley House, County Road 40 (moved from original location), Peachburgfederal building survey, 9 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Roba quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
4 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
106 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Peachburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,546 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 23 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 41 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 80 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 148 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190914-16 |
| 5 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 August 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 August 2000 | Natural | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peachburg in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Peachburg | - | The tornado touched down in a pecan grove on Peachburg Road uprooting a mature healthy pecan tree. It traveled northeast paralleling Peachburg Road, snapping and uprooting numerous pines and hardwoods. It continued along a utility right of way and partially wooded land before crossing Peachburg Road again, and lifted just after crossing the road. No structures were affected by this tornado. Estimated peak wind was 95 mph. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chunnenuggee | 1.1 miles | 8 | |
| Suspension | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Sedgefield | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Three Notch | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Union Springs | 5.0 miles | 8 | |
| Stavo | 6.7 miles | 8 | |
| Enon | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Aberfoil | 7.2 miles | 8 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122550283 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156862. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




